"I really, sincerely believe that one should trust……" — Peter Greenaway
"I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author."
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71 Quotes by Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway has 71 quotes on this site.
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We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
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Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that,…
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What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...
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I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
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If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
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It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one…
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My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread…
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We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies.…
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An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than…
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Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I…
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I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce…
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Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by…
— Henry Adams
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new…
— Robert Benchley
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
— Robert Benchley
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
— Robert Benchley
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
— Joyce Brothers
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
— Nolan Bushnell
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